https://techxplore.com/hi-tech-news/ en-us The latest news on hi-tech, innovation and new inventions technology, computer news and information Scientists at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have developed a portable, self-powered ultraviolet-C device called the Tribo-sanitizer that can inactivate two of the bacteria responsible for many foodborne illnesses and deaths. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-12-lightning-scientists-ultraviolet-c-device-food.html Engineering Tue, 05 Dec 2023 15:56:42 EST news621014199 Researchers from EPFL have resolved a long-standing debate surrounding laser additive manufacturing processes with a pioneering approach to defect detection. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-12-laser-additive-defects.html Engineering Tue, 05 Dec 2023 11:00:05 EST news620996401 Over the past decades, electronics engineers have been trying to develop increasingly smaller and highly performing field effect transistors (FETs) with multiple functions. FETs are crucial components of most electronics on the market today, which can control the electrical current flowing through devices. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-12-reconfigurable-molybdenum-ditelluride-devices-multiple.html Electronics & Semiconductors Tue, 05 Dec 2023 06:50:01 EST news620916637 For non-connoisseurs, picking out a bottle of wine can be challenging when scanning an array of unfamiliar labels on the shop shelf. What does it taste like? What was the last one I bought that tasted so good? https://techxplore.com/news/2023-12-taught-algorithm.html Hi Tech & Innovation Fri, 01 Dec 2023 11:43:04 EST news620653381 Researchers at Tufts University and Harvard University's Wyss Institute have created tiny biological robots that they call Anthrobots from human tracheal cells that can move across a surface and have been found to encourage the growth of neurons across a region of damage in a lab dish. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-11-anthrobots-scientists-tiny-biological-robots.html Robotics Thu, 30 Nov 2023 15:00:01 EST news620560805 Conventional silicon architecture has taken computer vision a long way, but Purdue University researchers are developing an alternative path—taking a cue from nature—that they say is the foundation of an artificial retina. Like our own visual system, the device is geared to sense change, making it more efficient in principle than the computationally demanding digital camera systems used in applications like self-driving cars and autonomous robots. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-11-human-eye-boost-vision-efficiency.html Electronics & Semiconductors Wed, 29 Nov 2023 12:27:51 EST news620483268 University of Sussex researchers have developed a more energy-efficient alternative to transmit data that could potentially replace Bluetooth in mobile phones and other tech devices. With more and more of us owning smartphones and wearable tech, researchers at the University of Sussex have found a more efficient way of connecting our devices and improving battery life. Applied to wearable devices, it could even see us unlocking doors by touch or exchanging phone numbers by shaking hands. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-11-bluetooth-scientists-efficient-transmit-devices.html Consumer & Gadgets Tue, 21 Nov 2023 12:44:04 EST news619793042 An experimental computing system physically modeled after the biological brain has "learned" to identify handwritten numbers with an overall accuracy of 93.4%. The key innovation in the experiment was a new training algorithm that gave the system continuous information about its success at the task in real time while it learned. The study was published in Nature Communications. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-11-experimental-brain-like-accurate-custom-algorithm.html Hi Tech & Innovation Tue, 14 Nov 2023 09:57:17 EST news619178234 An innovative approach to artificial intelligence (AI) enables reconstructing a broad field of data, such as overall ocean temperature, from a small number of field-deployable sensors using low-powered "edge" computing, with broad applications across industry, science and medicine. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-11-approach-natural-language-ai-applications-edge.html Hi Tech & Innovation Mon, 13 Nov 2023 15:35:03 EST news619112101 A form of brain-inspired computing that exploits the intrinsic physical properties of a material to dramatically reduce energy use is now a step closer to reality, thanks to a new study led by UCL and Imperial College London researchers. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-11-magnets-brain-inspired.html Hi Tech & Innovation Mon, 13 Nov 2023 11:00:02 EST news619090266 For more than 50 years, the semiconductor industry has been hard at work developing advanced technologies that have led to the amazing increases in computing power and energy efficiency that have improved our lives. A primary way the industry has achieved these remarkable performance gains has been by finding ways to decrease the size of the semiconductor devices in microchips. However, with semiconductor feature sizes now approaching only a few nanometers—just a few hundred atoms—it has become increasingly challenging to sustain continued device miniaturization. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-11-photoresist-materials-pave-smaller-high.html Electronics & Semiconductors Wed, 08 Nov 2023 12:40:24 EST news618669620 Researchers have developed a virtual reality application where a range of 3D modeling tools can be opened and controlled using just the movement of a user's hand. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-11-machine-users-superhuman-ability-tools.html Hi Tech & Innovation Tue, 07 Nov 2023 16:34:44 EST news618597277 In biological systems, complex neuronal networks with highly polarized synaptic gating interfaces are responsible for processing and transmitting intricate biosignals. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-11-scientists-method-electronic-to-multi-ionic-transmission.html Electronics & Semiconductors Tue, 07 Nov 2023 09:29:13 EST news618571751 An important avenue for information processing, especially at the edge of limited resources, is to develop neuromorphic devices with functions similar to biological neural networks. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-11-low-power-vertical-neurotransistors-emulate-dendritic.html Electronics & Semiconductors Wed, 01 Nov 2023 11:15:54 EDT news618056152 Formic acid, which can be produced electrochemically from carbon dioxide, is a promising energy carrier. A Chinese research team has now developed a fast-charging hybrid battery system that combines the electrochemical generation of formic acid as an energy carrier with a microbial fuel cell. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-10-team-fast-charging-hybrid-microbial-fuel.html Energy & Green Tech Tue, 31 Oct 2023 10:42:00 EDT news617967717 Australian researchers have developed cutting-edge technology known as "acoustic touch" that helps people "see" using sound. The technology has the potential to transform the lives of those who are blind or have low vision. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-10-acoustic-vision.html Hardware Thu, 26 Oct 2023 10:20:02 EDT news617534064 Instead of needing a coat for each season, imagine having a jacket that would dynamically change shape so it becomes more insulating to keep you warm as the temperature drops. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-10-shape-shifting-fiber-morphing-fabrics.html Engineering Thu, 26 Oct 2023 08:43:57 EDT news617528630 Large chunks of the Navajo Nation in the Southwest lack access to clean drinkable water, a trend that has been rising in many parts of the U.S. in recent years. A research team led by engineers with The University of Texas at Austin is changing that. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-10-pottery-treatment-device-navajo-nation.html Engineering Wed, 25 Oct 2023 17:01:03 EDT news617472061 Modern computer models—for example for complex, potent AI applications—push traditional digital computer processes to their limits. New types of computing architecture, which emulate the working principles of biological neural networks, hold the promise of faster, more energy-efficient data processing. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-10-optical-neural-network-thousands-artificial.html Hi Tech & Innovation Mon, 23 Oct 2023 10:32:11 EDT news617275926 The food industry generates enormous amounts of waste and by-products, including from poultry production. Each year, some 40 million metric tons of chicken feathers are incinerated. This not only releases large amounts of CO2, but also produces toxic gases such as sulfur dioxide. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-10-generating-electricity-chicken-feathers.html Energy & Green Tech Fri, 20 Oct 2023 09:29:03 EDT news617012941 Researchers have invented an experimental wearable device that generates power from a user's bending finger and can create and store memories, in a promising step towards health monitoring and other technologies. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-10-wearable-device-memories-powers-flex.html Engineering Wed, 18 Oct 2023 16:20:03 EDT news616864801 Using neutrons to see the additive manufacturing process at the atomic level, scientists have shown that they can measure strain in a material as it evolves and track how atoms move in response to stress. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-10-neutrons-stress-3d-printed-advancing-additive.html Engineering Mon, 16 Oct 2023 13:42:03 EDT news616682519 Materials scientists at Kiel University and the Fraunhofer Institute for Silicon Technology in Itzehoe (ISIT) have cleared another hurdle in the development and structuring of new materials for next-generation semiconductor devices, such as novel memory cells. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-10-tiny-memory-cell-extreme-temperatures.html Electronics & Semiconductors Mon, 16 Oct 2023 10:24:57 EDT news616670694 Your phone may have more than 15 billion tiny transistors packed into its microprocessor chips. The transistors are made of silicon, metals like gold and copper, and insulators that together take an electric current and convert it to 1s and 0s to communicate information and store it. The transistor materials are inorganic, basically derived from rock and metal. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-10-hybrid-transistors-silk-protein-stage.html Electronics & Semiconductors Fri, 13 Oct 2023 10:17:04 EDT news616411021 The future of human-machine interfaces is on the cusp of a revolution with the unveiling of a groundbreaking technology—a stretchable high-resolution multicolor synesthesia display that generates synchronized sound and light as input/output sources. A research team, led by Professor Moon Kee Choi in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at UNIST, has succeeded in developing this cutting-edge display using transfer-printing techniques, propelling the field of multifunctional displays into new realms of possibility. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-10-unveils-stretchable-high-resolution-user-interactive-synesthesia.html Engineering Thu, 12 Oct 2023 15:41:03 EDT news616344062 In 2013, researchers carried a Microsoft Kinect camera through houses in Japan's Fukushima Prefecture. The device's infrared light traced the contours of the buildings, making a rough 3D map. On top of this, the team layered information from an early version of a hand-held gamma-ray imager, displaying the otherwise invisible nuclear radiation from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-10-rad-robot-dogs.html Robotics Wed, 11 Oct 2023 16:00:25 EDT news616258809 Adulteration is a bitter truth in the sweet world of honey. As consumers seek nature's nectar for its purity and health benefits, a shadowy industry taints this golden elixir with hidden additives, most commonly water. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-10-sweet-victory-sensor-adulteration-honey.html Engineering Tue, 10 Oct 2023 11:00:02 EDT news616146932 Long-term exposure to low-frequency noise can cause numerous health problems, but the solution may be found in an unexpected object, a ping-pong ball. Conventionally thought of as the hollow plastic balls that speed through the air during a fast-tempo game of table tennis, with a few modifications, ping-pong balls can help absorb the city din. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-10-ping-pong-balls-absorbers-low-frequency-noise.html Engineering Tue, 10 Oct 2023 11:00:02 EDT news616145079 A new Monash University project programs food to "dance" across platters, providing playful and interactive culinary opportunities for diners and chefs. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-10-delicacies-combining-food-tech-interactive.html Computer Sciences Fri, 06 Oct 2023 13:40:05 EDT news615818400 When it comes to our planet's future, we all share a collective responsibility to explore innovative solutions that reduce pollution and promote sustainable living. One such revolutionary technology that has been capturing my attention lately is the microbial fuel cell (MFC). It's not just another energy source; it's a game-changer that promises to transform our world for the better. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-10-harnessing-power-microbial-fuel-cells.html Energy & Green Tech Tue, 03 Oct 2023 08:53:22 EDT news615541991